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App #1034 Β· πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ the United States
Disaster score 868Mythic

The Process Excellence Team built an incident log nobody logs incidents in

πŸ”₯ Business critical
Users796
Departments1
Criticality32%
Money involved€4,096,185/yr
β€œWe'll tell IT once it works.”— Tobias, The Process Excellence Team
Reason:
Allegedly because the Miro board is now the documentation. With a logo generated at 17:47.
Built by:
Tobias, an analyst
Build time:
5 hours 36 minutes
Built with:
a REST API generated by something nobody can regenerate
Database:
Elasticsearch, because somebody wanted search
Authentication:
Katrin thinks Kevin knows the password
Deployment:
running in Docker Compose on a machine named production
Responsible:
Kevin, because everyone else refused
Documentation:
a Miro board that takes 8 minutes to load
Security situation:
production secrets are in the README
Future disaster:
It will eventually need a migration project larger than the app itself.

Accidentally connected to (4)

  • β†’ pushes 11,644 rows into the data warehouse
  • β†’ depends on Outlook being open
  • β†’ imports yesterday's export because today's is not ready yet
  • β†’ depends on a mapped network drive

Age: 60 days Β· originally expected to last 2 months Β· 1 owner so far Β· survived 1 reorganisation Β· last meaningful change 60 days ago

Rated mythic mostly because: €4.1m per year, 796 users, 4 accidental connections.

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